Section 67: Siege and Battle
When the first whirlwind cannon struck the defenders of the city walls, everyone no longer took this fresh weapon with contempt, and there were all kinds of cheers in the Duke Mason's position, while the guards on the walls of Göttingenburg were so helpless against the unknown weapon that even the adjutant felt very troubled.
"Ten whirlwind cannons are loaded, listen to my orders, put ~~~" Arrod ordered the miscellaneous servants to load all ten whirlwind cannons, under his unified order, ten whirlwind cannons fired a salvo at the same time, ten stones hit the city wall, the most powerful one smashed off a piece of the wall battlement, the cracked wall battlements flew into the defending soldiers, the soldiers had no armor to protect their faces and skin, and blood flowed. And some of the stones hit the soldiers directly, which immediately made the people who were hit hurt and bone-broken, and what made the defenders of Göttingenburg even more unbearable was that the whirlwind cannon fired extremely fast, and ten whirlwind cannons could keep throwing stones into the city, not only the people on the city wall were attacked, but even the houses close to the city wall were hit, and the civilians living in it let out screams, and the fear of destruction and death permeated the entire castle.
"Lord Ulrichy, be careful." Count Ulrissi climbed the city wall with the support of his men, and he held the end of the cloak behind him with one hand, and grasped the soldier's arm with the other, and at this moment the adjutant saw Count Ulrissi, and hurriedly warned him, only to see a stone cannonball over their heads and into the archers under the city, although it did not hit anyone, but the archers had a look of fear on their faces.
"Remove the door of the house." Count Ullisi, a nobleman who was good at defense, immediately ordered the commoners of the city to remove the wooden doors of their houses and use them to block between the battlements of the city walls, so that the damage of flying stone fragments when the stone shells hit the city walls was minimized.
"The archers returned fire and shot the pigs from inside the turret." The archers desperately shot arrows at the whirlwind cannon from the turret, and although the whirlwind cannon was fended off by a shield in front of it, the arrows occasionally pierced through the gap and hit the miscellaneous men.
"Go back, whoever dares to run away I'll kill him." Seeing that some of the miscellaneous servants turned their heads and ran towards the rear positions because they were afraid of the arrows, Yves saw this scene and angrily held his sword and drove the miscellaneous servants who tried to escape back to their posts.
"Hit the force and throw it in the direction of the arrow tower." Arold commanded the servants with his sword, throwing stone cannonballs in the direction of the arrow tower, and the stones flew towards the arrow tower like locusts, although the arrow tower in Göttingenburg was made of stone, but its top was made of wood, under the attack of a stone cannonball, the top of the arrow tower was smashed into a large hole, and the broken wood fell down and hit the archers inside, and the dust suddenly filled the entire arrow tower.
"Damn it, God." When Count Ullisi saw the striking tower, he held his forehead and cursed angrily, but the archers of the castle were far less destructive than the whirlwind cannons, and this was the first time in his life that he had been beaten passively in the castle.
"Isn't there anything the Earl can do with such a thing?" The adjutant was also sweating profusely, and just as he was lowering his head, a stone shell hit a soldier behind him, and the soldier was hit in the head, half of his head was cut off, and blood and brains splattered on his body.
"This thing looks like a trebuchet that King Conrad bought from Byzantium." Count Ullisi followed the birdcatcher Henry to participate in the war with King Conrad, so he had a good impression of the catapult used by King Conrad in an attack on the castle in the Duchy of Saxony, Count Ullisi was still very young at the time, but he also knew that this catapult was one of the secret weapons of the Byzantine Empire, so he only sold King Conrad a finished product, if it wasn't for the knight led by the birder Henry at that time to forcibly break through the enemy's defense and burn the catapult from the side. It's really hard to say who the ruler of the empire is today, and when he thought of this, Count Ullisi patted his head.
"What's wrong, Lord Earl?" The adjutant hurriedly asked.
"I know that the road is clear, we should send knights to attack these catapults from the side, just like His Majesty, and we should know that these catapults should not be able to move at will." Count Ullisi said to the adjutant with certainty.
"Alright, I'll organize the knights and kill these damn shit things right now." Hearing the clear order of the Count of Ulrichy, the adjutant breathed a sigh of relief, to be honest, this feeling of being beaten in the castle was really uncomfortable, the other party's catapult had almost infinite stone shells, and his own arrows could not reach them at all, and the adjutant, as a knight, preferred to charge on a war horse.
"The time has come for the knights to swear their allegiance to Lord Ulrisi." The lieutenant wore an iron helmet and chain mail, his smock representing the glory of the family, and he rode on his warhorse and drew his sharp sword, surrounded by ten equally heavily armed knights, but the knights held spears in their hands, which allowed the knights to concentrate all their strength on the tip of the spear in a high-speed charge to break through the opponent in front of him.
"Oh~~~." The knights raised their spears and let out a battle cry, which almost drowned out the voices of the wailing soldiers on the city walls, yes, although the soldiers with spears sighed at the inexplicable weapons of the Masons, but the Saxon knights were elite warriors, they were not afraid of any enemy's intrigues, and with this pride the Saxon knights gathered at the gates of the city under the leadership of the adjutant.
"Squeak, squeak." The iron gate of Göttingenburg, under the twisting hinges of the ten soldiers above, slowly rose towards the wall, and the noble knights in Duke Mason's camp saw the gate that had been closed since the beginning of the war actually rise, and this anomaly made them all stir.
"The Arold Saxons have sent men to raid our whirlwind cannons." Yves looked at the gradually rising iron barrier, and he also became nervous, and he turned his head and shouted to Arrod, who was in command.
"I see, reload, stop attacking for now." Arold raised his arm and waved at the whirlwind cannons, who had become very skilled at handling the weapons after firing dozens of shells in a row, and they took the opportunity to catch their breath.
"Grachi~~~." When the gate was raised to the top, there was a sound of war cries from inside the gate, and the sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground sounded, and I saw a group of knights wearing chain mail robes and holding spears, desperately urging the horses under their crotches with the golden spurs on their feet, and rushed out of the castle.
"It's a Saxon knight, vigilance, vigilance." When Yves saw the spear-wielding knights rushing out of the castle, his nerves immediately tensed, most of their men were spear-wielding infantry, not at all the opponents of the heavily armed knights charging, he immediately asked his armed servants to hold spears to shrink the formation, and set up formations at both ends of the whirlwind cannon, at this time, feeling the roar of the knights and the powerful force, the miscellaneous servants operating the whirlwind cannon were in a commotion.
"Can't the whirlwind cannon that bullied me turn?" A cruel smile appeared on the corner of Arrod's mouth, it seems that some people in the castle still know something about catapults, ordinary catapults are indeed difficult to turn and move after installation, and can only face the position in front of them, maybe the commander in the castle thinks that his whirlwind cannon is the same, but they don't know that the invention of the whirlwind cannon is to solve the problem of the bulky and inflexible catapult.
"Boom~~~." Dozens of Saxon knights tightened their crotch horses, and then lined up in a line, trying to expand their assault area, the location of the city gate was originally in the northeast direction of the whirlwind cannon, at this time they drove the war horses under the crotch to adjust the position from the side of the whirlwind cannon, and then began to charge, just the sound of dozens of war horses and horses' hooves was like thunder, the knight wearing chain mail on the war horse glared angrily in front of him, the spear in his hand clenched and waited for the best time to shoot the spear, the sharp spear tip was eager for the enemy's blood.
"The whirlwind cannon turns in the direction of the knight and fires." Arrod admires the courage of the knights to face the enemy, but admiration is admiration, if you don't die on the battlefield, I live, it depends on who is better.
"Wow~~~." The handymen turned the support shaft on the cupola, and immediately the whirlwind cannon moved to the west, and the direction of Piso was aimed in the direction of the knights, and the whirlwind cannon flexibly changed direction, and it took less than ten seconds.
"Launch~~~." Arold looked at the approaching knights, he hissed and roared with exhaustion, and swung the sword in his hand fiercely, the miscellaneous servants hurriedly pulled the leather rope, and the stone cannonballs loaded at one end of the piggyback immediately flew out, and smashed at the formation of the knights, ten stone cannonballs smashed at the knights lined up at the same time, and suddenly the people turned over on their horses, the war horses neighed, and the heavy cavalry rode on the war horses The target was much larger than the lowly infantry, whether it was hitting the war horse or the knight on the horse, it was a result.
"......" looked at dozens of strong Saxon knights, wearing strong armor and holding sharp spears, who had just been invincible, but at this time they were smashed by the cannonballs of the whirlwind cannon, and there was a strange silence on the battlefield, and people all opened their mouths and stared at the scene in front of them.
"What are you doing? Kill those Saxon knights. Arold swallowed, even the initiator felt nervous, he saw the knights who had been smashed were shot down and dismounted, but they did not die, the knights were dizzy and wanted to stand up, and grab the horses that were jumping beside them, while the knights who were not hit tried to steer their horses to avoid their comrades who were knocked down.
"Oh, oh wow~~~." The armed servants looked at each other, and suddenly their eyes burst with passion, and they looked at the Saxon knights who had been thrown off their horses, and there was no fear in their eyes at this time, but a kind of greed, and they cheered and rushed towards the fallen Saxon knights, holding their weapons.